Spring continues:
But let's take a few moments' break from all the leaping about to look at what the members of SFPA have gotten up to lately, shall we?
Mike
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
4 poems, "flat bastard," "shearing," "the ancient," and "the yawn," Five Fleas, May 18, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/05/morning-of-may-18-2025.html
Silvatiicus Riddle
haiku, "Rites", Carmina Magazine, March 2025, http://carminamagazine.com/rites.html
haiku, "Faerie Propaganda", Scifaikuest Print, May 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-may-2025
poem, spec, "Nightmare Eater", Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores, May 25, 2025, https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/fantasy/nightmare-eater/
Ruth Berman
poem, non-genre, "Rescuing the Fox," Studio One, Spring 2025, https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/studio_one/
Pixie Bruner
prose poem, spec, "The Oubliette," Baubles from Bones #5, Summer 2025, https://www.baublesfrombones.com
poetry reading, spec, “how I become the ghost that haunts you” May 14, 2025, https://youtu.be/a3kWBZcqSMw?si=eSoBPi2pk5Kb0gF2
editor, Morsus Vitae #6: Dark Departures and Arrivals, May 2025, https://www.mementomoriinkmag.com/mvpresent
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
poem, "When the Ten of Swords Shows Up, No Matter How Big or Toxic an Issue Is, Realize Something," Teacakes and Tarot, Spell Jar Press, May 1, 2025 https://www.spelljarpress.com/anthologies
LindaAnn LoSchiavo
article, "Poetry and Publicity: Crafting News Pegs to Boost Marketing Momentum", One Tribune, May 26, 2025, https://onetribune.one/2025/05/27/poetry-and-publicity-crafting-news-pegs-to-boost-marketing-momentum/
review and award, Always Haunted: Hallowe'en Poems, The World's Best Magazine, May 19, 2025, https://theworldsbestmagazine.com/2025/05/19/book-of-excellence-always-haunted-by-lindaann-loschiavo/
interview, “Tackling the Eerie: An Evening with LindaAnn LoSchiavo”, The World’s Best Magazine: Echoes of Greatness, April 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F4QHNSG8
interview by Dawn Colclasure Wilson, Sparrew, May 6, 2025, https://www.dmcwriter.com/interview-with-poet-lindaann-loschiavo
review, Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, Amazon, April 22, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2BMWM8CDZ9X12/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?
review, Felones de Se: Poems about Suicide, Adam Fenner, May 17, 2025, https://adamfenner.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/felones-de-se-poems-about-suicide-reviewed/
5 poems, non-genre, "Exploratrix," The Crust," "Soda Jerk," "Sonnet: My Dominatrix," & "Merchants of Venus", Pulp Lit Magazine: Paperback Romance, April 28, 2025, https://issuu.com/pulplitmag/docs/paperback_romance
poem, "A Haint in the Hollow", SpecPoVerse Vol. 1 Issue 1, April 30, 2025, https://heyzine.com/flip-book/79b5f2cd76.html#page/8
poem, "Apprenticed to the Night", Divinations Magazine #5: Sleep. May 1, 2025, https://www.divinationsmagazine.co.uk/issue-five-sleep-1/apprenticed-to-the-night
2 poems, "Lon Chaney, Jr. and the Wolf Man’s Curse" and "CENTO: Metamorphosis", Trash Wonderland, May 5, 2025, https://www.trashwonderland.com/the-resurrection-of-trash-wonderland
poem, "Parisian Memories," Paris; Great Cities Vol. 1, Pure Slush, on May 25, 2025, https://www.lulu.com/shop/pure-slush/paris-great-cities-vol-1/paperback/product-65vrvgm.html?
2 poems, non-genre, "The Wizards of Words" and "Bones of the Hospital / Le ossa dell' ospedale", Studio One Literary Journal, Volume 49, Spring 2025, https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1468&context=studio_one
poem, non-genre, "Merletto (Lace)", Agora: The Arts and Literary Magazine of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Issue 24-25: Legacy, June 2025, https://issuu.com/agora.magazine/docs/_draft_agora_24-25?fr=sYmFiYjg1MjU4NDk....
Paul Douglas Deane
excerpt from translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Illuminations of the Fantastic #17, May 25, 2025, https://www.illuminationsfantastic.com/sir-gawain-green-knight-paul-douglas-deane-a-new-translation-illuminations-of-the-fantastic-magazine
editor, Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse #6: Mythic Tales and Sacred Truths, Spring 2025, https://alliteration.net/current-issue/
Michael H. Payne
4 poems, #1828 - 1831, Terebinth, May 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2025, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250505.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250512.html, http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250519.html & http://pandora.xepher.net/terebinth/tbarchiv/20250526.html
Angela Acosta
poem, "Ultraviolet," Five Fleas, May 4, 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/05/afternoon-of-may-4-2025.html
poem, "Your Body is a Cenote," Paraselene #2, Spring 2025, https://paraselenemagazine.com/2025/05/17/angela-acosta/
Kendall Evans and Robert Borski
poem, “Mother’s Milk,” Kaleidotrope, Spring 2025, https://kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/mothers-milk-by-kendall-evans-and-robert-borski/
A J Dalton
poem, “A Public Safety Announcement”, Mobius, 1 May 2025, http://mobiusmagazine.com/poetry/publicsa.html
poem, “Gulliver’s Travels to the Farthest Reaches”, Sublimation 2.2, April 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F6LQ24W2
poem, “Mercy and the Mercenary”, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #64, Spring 2025, https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?p=4415
poem, “Metaspace”, Dissident Voice, May 2025, https://dissidentvoice.org/2025/05/metaspace/
4 poems, “Edenic”, “Phasic”, “Technomancer” and “Ecogothic”, Gothic Nature Journal #5, April 2025, gothicnaturejournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GothicNatureIssueV.pdf
poem, “The Surgeon”, JOURN-E, 4.1, Vernal Equinox 2025, https://shorturl.at/uwnoF
poem, “Last Love”, AntipodeanSF Radio Show, 8 May 2025, https://2nvr.org.au/playlist/bitias-may-08-2025/
poem, “Children of Yesterday”, AntipodeanSF Radio Show, 11 May 2025, https://2nvr.org.au/playlist/bistro-may-11-2025/
Daniel Ausema
poem, "Lesser Zodiacs," Merganser Magazine, May 2025, https://mergansermagazine.com/index.html#LesserZodiacs
poem, "The River of Naming," Orion's Belt, May 2025, https://www.orions-belt.net/archives/the-river-of-naming
Ken Poyner
poem, non-genre, print, “Adolescence”, Blue Unicorn Review vol XLVIII #2, https://blueunicorn.org/
Meghan Davis
poem, "The Cassandra Effect," The Future Fire, May 2025, https://futurefire.net/2025.73/fiction/cassandra.html
Carol Edwards
poem, "Catching Sunlight", Lit Shark Issue 9, April 2025, https://litshark.com/
3 poems, "Autumn Dreams", "Sonoran Desert Morning", and "Through the Car Window", Butterflies Anthology, Verseve, May 2025, https://verseve.gabriellev.art/books/
poem, "Self, Reflection", Voices Unbound, May 2025, https://sites.google.com/view/freshwordsmagazine/special-anthologies#h.q8gyir2w3h7g
poem, "Sleeping Beauty", Morsus Vitae #6, May 2025, https://www.mementomoriinkmag.com/mvpresent
KB Nelson
poem, "Lady Raptor in Flight," Last Leaves #9: Feral, Fall 2024, https://www.lastleavesmag.com/_files/ugd/dccfc8_ccf9c63a610f4142a3426e58558fce3a.pdf
Wendy Van Camp
reader & coordinator, “VALUES IN THE VOID: poems on integrity in the speculative realm” with Bree Wernicke, LK Indigo, Denise Dumars, Pedro Iniguez”, LITFest in the Dena, Pasadena, CA, May 3rd, 20205, https://www.litfestinthedena.org/schedule
panelist & workshop teacher, “Self-Editing Strategies, Marketing for the Indie, Chapbook Craft: Your Words, Your Way”, Balticon 59, Baltimore, MD, May 24-25, 2025, https://www.balticon.org/
panelist & reader, “Good News!, Wheel of Time, solo reading”, WisCon 47, Madison, WI, May 23-24, 2025, https://wiscon.net
essay, “Rain Forest Writers Retreat Retrospective: what it is like to be a poet at a novelist writing retreat”, Verse-Virtual, May 2025, https://www.verse-virtual.org
interview, “An Interview with Wendy Van Camp”, Atmosphere Press, May 27th, 2025, https://atmospherepress.com/interview-with-wendy-van-camp/
blurb for The Boy Who Was Girl by David Gerrold, Starship Sloane Publishing, May 28th, 2025, https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB4PZZQ8
AJ Deane
poem 'Loggen Crown', Forgotten Ground Regained, Spring '25, https://alliteration.net/poetry/loggen-crown/
spoken word performance, 2 Sisters Arts, Trimley St Mary, Felixstowe, Suffolk UK May 23rd '25, http://twosistersarts.co.uk/2025/02/13/performance-poetry-with-an-edge-from-james-domestic-virginia-betts/
Marisca Pichette
poem, "star-bright," SpecPoVerse, Volume 1 Issue 1, May 2025, https://specpoverse.org/vol-1%2C-issue-1-2025
Larina Warnock
poem, "Failed Start," SpecPoVerse, Issue 1, https://heyzine.com/flip-book/79b5f2cd76.html
2 poems, "Autumn Waltz" and "con * stant*", SFWP Journal, Spring 2025, https://www.sfwp.com/sfwp-quarterly/issue-32-/spring-2025
Anna Cates
poem, “The Restoration,” A Confluence of Poems: A Tribute to Tributaries, Last Exit Press, May 2025, https://www.edithchasesymposium.org/2025event.html
tanka, Ribbons, Spring/Summer 2025, https://www.amazon.com/RIBBONS-Spring-Summer-2025-Number/dp/B0F6JZJ93J
tanka, Presence #80, March 2025, https://haikupresence.org/
haiku, Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal, May 2025, https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/sense-sensibility-may-2025/
haiku, Sense & Sensibility Haiku Journal, June 2025, https://sensesensibilityhaikujournal.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/sense-sensibility-june-2025/
5 poems, “Nocturnal,” “A Tale of Two Poets,” haiku, tanka & senryu, Cattails #251, April 2025, http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattails251.pdf
tanka, Eucalypt #38, May 2025, https://juliethorndyke.com/eucalypt-a-tanka-journal/
Mary Soon Lee
poem, "Rules for a Magic Sword," Heroic Fantasy Quarterly #64, May 2025, https://www.heroicfantasyquarterly.com/?p=4417
Ken Anderson
2 poems, “The Gospel According to St. Dude” & “The Suede Hiking Boots,” Sein und Werden, Spring-Summer 2025, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer25/page17.html & http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring-summer25/page13.html
N. Jed Todd
2 poems, non-genre, "Halfway Between War and Whore" and "Right and Wrong", As You Were: The Military Review Vol. 22, Spring 2025, https://militaryexperience.org/as-you-were-the-military-review-vol-22/
S. T. Eleu
poem, "Cultural Perception as Open Polynomial," AntipodeanSF #319, https://antisf.com/the-stories/cultural-perception-as-open-polynomial
Nancy Joie Wilkie
poem, “Little Tornados,” Seven Sides of Self—Stories, She Writes Press, November 2019, https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Seven-Sides-of-Self/Nancy-Joie-Wilkie/9781631526343
poem, “Raging Quiet,” Faraway and Forever—More Stories, She Writes Press, July 2023, https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Faraway-and-Forever/Nancy-Joie-Wilkie/9781647424541
poem, “Perfect Prayers,” Reflections—Maryland Writers’ Association Anthology, August 2023, https://www.amazon.com/Reflections-Maryland-Writers-Association/dp/B0CDK74TX9/
poem, “Aftermath,” The River Keeper and Other Tales, Mascot Books, February 2025, https://www.mindsights.net/378_the_river_keeper_epk_final.pdf
Amabilis OHara
poem, "Garbage Gratitude," Workers Write!, Tales from the Cleaners, May 13, 2025, https://www.workerswritejournal.com/ww-cleaners.htm
Lauren Scharhag
3 poems, "4:30 a.m. poem," "Ardor," and "Blackbird Trapped," New Croton Review, Spring 2025, https://newcrotonreview.com/
poem, "The Sleep Study," Voices Unbound: An Anthology of International Poetry, Fresh Words Literary Magazine, April 2025, https://www.lulu.com/shop/som/voices-unbound-an-international-anthology-of-poetry/paperback/product-m2m7ype.html?page=1&pageSize=4
poem, "And Pain and I Resume," Life in Limbo, Issue 1, Spring 2025, https://thelifeinlimbomag.com/the-magazine/
poem, "At Culver's Drive-Thru," Locust Shells Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, https://locustshellsjournal.com/locust-shells-journal-volume-2-issue-1/
Richard Magahiz
4 poems, genre, "[boiling in the blood]," "[ocelot protocols]," "[milkweed silk]," and "[cameras flash]", Five Fleas, 7 March 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/03/afternoon-of-march-7-2025.html
poem, non-genre, "look at me when I'm talking to you", dadakuku, March 11 2025 https://dadakuku.com/2025/03/11/look-at-me-when-im-talking-to-you/
poem, genre, "The mystery of the thermionic". Songs of Eretz, Spring 2025: Artifacts, http://www.songsoferetz.com/2025/03/songs-of-eretz-poetry-review-spring.html
poem, genre, "Groats in the broth of heaven".,Abyss and Apex, 2nd quarter 2025, https://www.abyssapexzine.com/2025/03/groats-in-the-broth-of-heaven/
3 poems, genre, "[aggressive]," "[the dark pub]," and "[rocketdude]", Five Fleas, 5 April 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/04/morning-of-april-5-2025.html
poem, genre, "Plusses and minuses", Uppagus, April 2025 https://uppagus.com/poems/magahiz-plusses/
poem, genre, "Excellent scratch and stain protection", dadakuku, 22 April 2025 https://dadakuku.com/2025/04/22/excellent-scratch-and-stain-protection/
3 poems, genre, "Reading," "The Celebrity," and "Foul Pole", Chrome Baby, Bairn 143, https://robindunn.com/bairn143.html
3 poems, genre, "[everything he said]," "[bones]," and "[Hear now!]", Five Fleas, 9 May 2025, https://fivefleas.blogspot.com/2025/05/afternoon-of-may-9-2025.html
poem, genre, "Correspondences", Trollbreath Magazine, June 2025, https://magazine.trollbreath.com/correspondences/
Haley Bossé
prose poem, “The Eco-Audiologist, After Hearing” Cincinnati Review miCRo Series, May 14, 2025, https://www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-the-eco-audiologist-after-hearing-by-haley-bosse/
poem, “In Defense of Autotomy,” t’ART, May 12, 2025, https://www.t-artpress.co.uk/springed25
Colleen Anderson
poem, "Alchemical Stage II: Dissolution," Specpoverse Volume 1, Issue 1, Apr. 2025, https://specpoverse.org/
poem, "Moon Rising," Absynthe Spring 2025, Mar. 2025, https://www.absynthe.ca/
interview, Tiny Bookcase, May 2025, https://www.buzzsprout.com/1129067/episodes/16763766-212-interview-with-colleen-anderson?t=0
Mahaila Smith
novelette in verse, Seed Beetle, Stelliform Press, May 15, 2025, https://www.stelliform.press/index.php/product/seed-beetle-by-mahaila-smith/
Katherine Quevedo
poem, reprint, "Calypso, Riddled," The Hyacinth Review: Books & Literature theme, May 21, 2025, https://hyacinthreview.org/katherine-quevedo-calypso-riddled/
Lisa Timpf
poem, spec, “Earth Mother,” Forgotten Ground Regained: A Quarterly Journal of Alliterative Verse, Issue 6, Spring 2025, https://alliteration.net/poetry/earth-mother/
poem, non-spec, “An Aging Athlete Holds Their Ground,” selected for recognition in the Adult division at the 2025 National Baseball Poetry Festival, https://baseballpoetryfest.org/adult-poetry-contest-recognition/
Herb Kauderer
2 poems “Black Hole” and “Diamond Dragon”, View from Atlantis #118, April 2025, https://viewfromatlantis.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/issue-118-winter-wonderlands/
5 poems “inside the mind of…”, “First Landing on Proxima bIV”, “head on a pike”, “revenge awaits”, and “self-confidence”, Scifaikuest online, May 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/scifaikuest-online
6 poems “working conditions”, “lost objectivity”, “the sixth model”, “different times”, “youthful glee” (also reprinted in the issue as an editor’s favorite), “reconstituted ecosystem”, Scifaikuest print, May 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-may-2025
2 poems “Forced Relocation” (reprint), and “[frosted morning]”, Awen #128, May 2025, https://atlanteanpublishing.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/awen-128.pdf
Randall Andrews
2 poems, [interior design] and “Uncommon Grounds,” Scifaikuest (print), May 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/scifaikuest-may-2025
Akua Lezli Hope
7 senryu, non genre, 75 creates, May 2025, https://www.75creates.com/senryu
poem, non-genre, ”The First Hundred Days”, The NewVerse News, May 10, 2025, https://thenewversenews.substack.com/p/nvn-saturday-the-first-100-days
reading, SpringWrites Festival, May 15, 2025, https://youtu.be/bsj6c3ssKbI?si=l0QZMwgnm2WsT7PX the recording of me begins at 5:58 to 15 :33
3 panels, "Self Editing," "Building Community," and "Orpheus Again," Balticon, May 26-27, 2025, https://www.balticon.org/programming
senryu, “our failed dates”, Failed Haiku #109, April, 2025, https://failedhaiku.com/2025/04/
3 poems, “Ibo, Zulu, Aztec”, "First Contact," "Babel," The Martian Wave April, 2025, https://www.hiraethsffh.com/product-page/martian-wave-april-2025
mini acrostic, "GAIA," Pebbles vol. 5, 2025, https://petrichormag.com/pebbles-vol-5-work/
reading, Southeast Steuben Public Library, April 6, 2025, https://ssclibrary.org/event/celebrating-national-poetry-month-with-akua-lezli-hope/
E.F. Schraeder
poem, "How to Stop a Heart," Vagabond City Lit #107, Spring 2025, https://vagabondcitylit.com/2025/05/19/how-to-stop-a-heart-by-e-f-schraeder/
Alan Vincent Michaels
haiku sequence, "A Cataclysmic Reversal," SciFanSat #22: Disaster, May 31, 2025, https://scifansat.com/PDF/SciFanSat_Issue_22_Disaster_05-31-2025.pdf